Gathering of the Tribes

Transposed from an older blog


Saturday and a chance for a big strategy meeting with focused people from all round the country. A whole gaggle of Area Networkers from London, Birmingham, Manchester, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bristol and Devon. All volunteers, all motivated to make things happen, all very active in there local areas, and all determined to sort the problems of Environmental degradation out and kick bad guys butt.

I like meetings like this. Lots of stuff discussed, tell you about it later. Then off down the pub, kind of predictable that bit.

Party later till 5am but not really Greenpeace related. Ran into some old friends, talked a bit about the G8, the war and other cheerful subjects. Listened to beautiful music, and had a very mellow time.

One very profound moment. The party was being done by the Small World crew, who do a tent at Glastonbury and there own little festivals. Very cool visuals, some nice hangings amongst which was the legend of the 'Warriors of the Rainbow'

There was an old lady, from the "Cree" tribe, named "Eyes of Fire", who prophesied that one day, because of the white mans' or Yo-ne-gis' greed, there would come a time, when the fish would die in the streams, the birds would fall from the air, the waters would be blackened, and the trees would no longer be, mankind as we would know it would all but cease to exist.

There would come a time when the "keepers of the legend, stories, culture rituals, and myths, and all the Ancient Tribal Customs" would be needed to restore us to health. They would be mankinds’ key to survival, they were the "Warriors of the Rainbow". There would come a day of awakening when all the peoples of all the tribes would form a New World of Justice, Peace, Freedom and recognition of the Great Spirit.

Still gets ya...